February 2016 - Regulatory and tax newsletter

15 Feb, 2016

Regulations and Tax

Published on 15 Feb 2016

In this issue, we have included:

Top Headlines
•	Base Erosion And Profit Shifting (BEPS): Key considerations
	for real estate funds
•	The Paris Agreement: Moving from climate conscious to climate
	compliance. What does this mean for Pension Fund investors?
Australia
•	New Australian foreign investment regime impacts investors in
	real estate
China
•	PRC update on VAT for real estate
•	AMAC publishes draft rules on private fund offering
	activities and draft guidelines for private fund contracts
Hong Kong
•	Strengthening Hong Kong’s role as an asset management
	centre – the FSDC’s recommendations
•	Bill to introduce open-ended fund company structure in
	Hong Kong gazetted
•	Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department’s approach to
	residence certificates
•	SFC seeks to abolish non-reliance clauses with new suitability
	requirement
India
•	Draft guidelines on determining tax residency
Japan
•	Use of partnerships to invest abroad
Singapore
•	New Luxembourg-Singapore agreement for the avoidance
	of double taxation
•	MAS updates guidelines on licensing, registration and conduct
	of business for fund management companies
AIFMD
•	AIFMD guide for Asian fund managers marketing non-EU AIFs
	in the EU
•	Extending the AIFMD marketing passport to non-EU AIFMs

Lastly, we would like to thank our working group who helped putting together the Newsletter.

For details of this working group, please click here

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Amelie Delaunay

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